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A METHOD FOR THE OBJECTIVE STUDY OF TOOL‐USING BEHAVIOR [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1975
Key pecking for food was shaped in four crows within a conventional operant‐conditioning test chamber. When pecking stabilized, a metal screen with openings 2.5 cm high by 1.0 cm wide, was placed over the response key, so that the crow could still see but could no longer peck the key.
R W, Powell, W, Kelly
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Tool-Using in Feeding Behavior of Ant-lions

open access: yesThe Annual of Animal Psychology, 1975
The tool-using behavior in the ant-lions (the larvae of the Myrmeleon formicarius) was observed in detail and experimented analytically. This behavior is the throwing-up of sand by the ant-lions to capture the preys, namely, Formica japonica, Aphenogaster famelica and Lasius niger, if they try to escape out of the pits.
TOSHIHIKO TANAKA, YOSHIAKI ONO
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Automatic Generation of Cognitive Theories using Genetic Programming [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Cognitive neuroscience is the branch of neuroscience that studies the neural mechanisms underpinning cognition and develops theories explaining them. Within cognitive neuroscience, computational neuroscience focuses on modeling behavior, using theories ...
Frias-Martinez, E, Gobet, F
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Using the Humanism Pocket Tool for Patients With Challenging Behaviors [PDF]

open access: yesThe Annals of Family Medicine, 2018
How can clinicians stay humanistic—respectful, empathic, and compassionate—with patients with complex behavioral, social, or physical issues? In our interprofessional patient-centered medical home for homeless Veterans, we designed a compact set of techniques, summarized on a pocket card ...
Soh, Michael   +6 more
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Evidence of tool use in a seabird

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019
Documenting novel cases of tool use in wild animals can inform our understanding of the evolutionary drivers of the behavior’s emergence in the natural world.
Annette L. Fayet, E. Hansen, D. Biro
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Understanding the Continuance Intention to Use Chatbot Services

open access: yesAsia Marketing Journal, 2023
Chatbot services have become an essential communication tool for interacting with consumers in e-commerce. To understand consumer behavior in the context of chatbot services, we apply the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to analyze continuance intention ...
Jeeyeon Kim, Yiling Li, Jeonghye Choi
doaj   +1 more source

Normalized analysis and design of LCC resonant converters [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
—A normalization of the LCC voltage-output resonant converter performance characteristics, in terms of the tank gain at resonance and the parallel-to-series-capacitor ratio, is presented. The resulting description is subsequently used for the derivation
Bingham, Chris   +3 more
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Electronic cigarettes: harm reduction tool or new substance use behavior? [PDF]

open access: yesAddiction, 2018
Commentary to: Gateway effects and electronic ...
Mayet, Aurélie, Lavagna, Chrystel
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The (in)visible hand in the Libor market: an Information Theory approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper analyzes several interest rates time series from the United Kingdom during the period 1999 to 2014. The analysis is carried out using a pioneering statistical tool in the financial literature: the complexity-entropy causality plane.
Bariviera, Aurelio F.   +3 more
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Predicting the risk for aberrant opioid use behavior in patients receiving outpatient supportive care consultation at a comprehensive cancer center

open access: yesCancer, 2018
Opioid misuse is a growing crisis. Patients with cancer who are at risk of aberrant drug behaviors are frequently underdiagnosed. The primary objective of this study was to determine the frequency and factors predicting a risk for aberrant opioid and ...
S. Yennurajalingam   +12 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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